Month: June 2026

Scotland’s employee ownership community has taken centre stage at the UK Employee Ownership Awards 2026, with three Scottish businesses and leaders recognised as the UK’s EO sector plots further rapid growth. The latest UK figures show the employee owned (EO) sector has grown 300% between 2020 and 2025 to 2,890 businesses, and is now expected […]

Techscaler was Scotland’s attempt to build the connective tissue its startup ecosystem had long lacked at national scale: one network linking founders, mentors, operators, investors, education and place across the country rather than leaving that work scattered across individual cities and institutions. Two years on from its initial rollout, that network is no longer an […]

French renewables developer Qair has reached financial close on its first UK project, the 46.51 MWp Brecks Solar Farm, while its 1 GW Ayre floating wind farm off Orkney has secured onshore consent and moved a step closer to construction around 2030. Ayre: 1 GW floating wind off Orkney Ayre is a 1 GW floating […]

Construction of the £9.1m EnergyWorks facility in Aberdeen and a new TechX accelerator cohort of 11 cleantech start‑ups highlight how the Net Zero Technology Centre is trying to turn the North East into a net‑zero innovation and manufacturing hub. EnergyWorks: a physical home for cleantech scale‑ups Construction has begun on the £9.1 million EnergyWorks facility […]

Scotland’s economy grew just 0.1% in Q1 2026 as services and construction offset a sharp fall in production, leaving ministers defending their growth strategy in a Holyrood debate on “Growing Scotland’s Economy”. Scotland’s onshore GDP rose by 0.1% in the first quarter of 2026, down from 0.2% in the final quarter of 2025 and well […]